The Damned New Model Army Carter Cardiacs World of Twist Molly Half-head Boys Wonder Ramones Steel Pulse Daisy Chain Saw Snuff Les Thugs Los Lobos Penny Dreadfuls Vandals Vibrators Clash David Microwave Donkey Nun Et al.. + a few hundred more that I can’t be arsed trying to remember.
My point is...the 80’s wasn’t just mainly chart crap, there were loads of half decent bands knocking around who were far better than some past-it dj’s opinion of what was given to him to plug